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Accounting for Firms in Ethnicity Wage Gaps Throughout the Earnings Distribution

Phan, Van; Singleton, Carl; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; … - 2022

Ethnicity wage gaps in Great Britain are large and have persisted over time. Previous studies of these gaps have been almost exclusively confined to analyses of household data, so they could not account for the role played by individual employers, despite growing evidence of their wage-setting...

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Do Migrants Lower Workplace Wages?

White, Michael R. - 2017

-white employees, a finding that is consistent with employer discrimination on grounds of race, or lower worker bargaining power when …

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The Gender Gap in Wages over the Life Course : Evidence from a British Cohort Born in 1958

Joshi, Heather - 2019

Using data tracking all those born in a single week in Great Britain in 1958 through to their mid-50s we observe an inverse U-shaped gender wage gap (GWG) over their life-course: an initial gap in early adulthood widened substantially during childrearing years, affecting earnings in full-time...

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Are Women Doing it for Themselves? Gender Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap

Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2019

Using matched employer-employee data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Surveys (WERS) for Britain we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around half that. However, the GWG declines substantially with...

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The Gender Wage Gap Among University Vice Chancellors in the UK

Bachan, Ray; Bryson, Alex - 2021

The gender wage gap has closed gradually in the United Kingdom, as in other countries, but convergence is slower among top earners. Using linked employer-employee data over two decades we examine the gap among university Vice Chancellors who are among the most highly paid employees in the UK....

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Labour Market Expectations and Unemployment in Europe

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …

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The Wage Impact of Trade Unions in the UK Public and Private Sectors

Blanchflower, David G. - 2009

This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premium in the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membership wage premium is approximately double that in the private sector controlling for a full range of individual, job...

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Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?

Bryan, Mark L. - 2015

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...

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It's Where You Work : Increases in Earnings Dispersion Across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S

Barth, Erling - 2014

This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of log earnings among individuals into the part due to changes...

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A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain

Bryson, Alex - 2020

After shrinking dramatically during World War Two the gender wage gap (GWG) narrowed again in the early 1970s due to the Equal Pay Act. The GWG has closed across birth cohorts at all points in the adult life-cycle but remains. Within birth cohort it rises to middle age before falling again....

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